Chapter 4 – Page 24

Once again, we’d like to thank our crack team of Continuity Errorists. We’ve sent a letter of apology to the former Payet Best stunt double and now recognize our makeup & special effects department is at fault. The entire department has been sacked, and their duties will now be performed by catering.

That’s right Best you don’t need them; you practically soloed that instance. I hope we don’t go to long without seeing more of Best because I really do like him, and I feel like he should be an adventurer swooping in to ruin the gangs plans/ take all the credit for himself. It’s a role perfectly suited for his oddly endearing blend of delusion, competence, and charm.

Though I have to note that Best’s wording seems a little over the top regardless of the fact that this is a fantasy comic. I don’t think even really arrogant people actually talk like that. I could be wrong though.

He’s a bard who’s trying to become a legendary hero- it’s like having both learned to write professionally and decided to live your life specifically in order to make your autobiography as awesome a story as possible. People may not talk that way, but legendary heroes do, so I get the feeling he thinks over all the lines he could use in any given situation and picks the Best-sounding one.

Ah. I can even now hear the whine of “I’m just playing my character. Why aren’t you letting me play my character?” from Best’s player, in some metagame dimension. While Frigg’s player sits there, smug in the knowledge that he’s perfectly safe, thanks to his voluntary embrace of the concept of PC Immunity.

Syrinj is probably the most sensitive one in the group, and even SHE”S had enough of Best. Off to a solo career, eh? well, i don’t suppose that’s TOO bad (though for all i know next page will show Byron waking up into a berserker rage and anhillating him…Byron’s normally a calm, intelligent, thoughtful individual. perhaps that means the “on” button is just as hard to get working for this berserker as the “off” button. mind you hard does NOT=impossible.) If he does make it safely to the end of the episode, i hope Payet does Ok..and of course I hope he gets that life lesson he’s in dire need of without too high a body count being involved.

First off, love the update. I would have enjoyed seeing Worst get clobbered, but you can’t have everything ( where would you put it?).

You know, I’ve been looking over the archives, and I have a bizzare question.

What class, exactly, is Frigg?

Early life suggests Rogue. But, she was brought up by the Stoner Sisters, and uses a Cleric’s favorite weapon, the Heavy Mace. ( OK, she would have had to burn a Feat for the Tower Shield, unless that is just supposed to be a heavy steel shield…) Her whole “This is a fight, hits or GTFO” line tends towards a Barb, except Barbs don’t like heavy armor, and tend to not use shields because they really prefer the massive damage output of two-handed weapons. She certainly doesn’t have the Cha to go for Pally, but seems too smart to go pure Fighter.

Syr’Nj is a Druid/Warmage ( Except that, being a Science-doer her Warmage abilities show through as Sciencey-stuff)

Gravedust is a Fighter/ ( I want to say Cleric with his ways with the spirit world.)

Bandit is a Rogue/Fighter.

And Frigg, who got me started on this, is a True Neutral Cleric/Barb. ( Up to this point she hasn’t needed to use any spells, and hasn’t seen any reason to. And, we haven’t seen her get into any serious combat yet. If I’m right, I will be very interested to see her get into a real battle, since a properly run Cleric-Barb has some very sneaky tricks up their sleeves.)

I agree with most of your thoughts there, except for Frigg and Gravedust. Gravedust is a shaman (as he says); Frigg doesn’t have to be anything other than a Chaotic Good cleric of Kord (or an equivalent deity with the Strength domain). She certainly seems to be all about strength as the answer to everything. Which of course is part of her charm :D

Frig is obviously enough rogue for evasion aka 2 and enough barb lvls to snake some rage and uncanny dodge while keeping full bab and other pluses when not in heavy armor maybe and atleast 2-4 in fighter for feats and tower shield and heavy armor proficiency then she would now be a high enough lvl to start getting into all the really easy to abuse prestige classes all the while not taking exp penalties for multi classing due to being human and not extending any of the classes too far from each other and at the same time taking such small lvls in classes would make her fort and reflex saves amazing and the will a little low but nothing the feats and prestige classes cant fix with 1-2 lvls power gaming is easy in dnd 3.5 hell making immortal/god slaying kobolds by lvl 4 is doable by the rules as printed.

She makes dramatic entrances and throws down a lot of smack talk. She also hits things hard. Assuming we’re throwing ToB out (she could easily be a Crusader) I’d say Fighter with the Zhentarim and Dungeoncrasher variants, PrC’ing into something like Dread Commando.

Uh, guys? She’s a Paladin. A humorously sideways take on a standard Advanced Dudgeon & Draggin’ Paladin. “Crusader” is a contraction of “Okay, she’s an AD&D Paladin, everybody gets that, what with the mace-swingin’-plate-covered-member-of-a-monastic-religious-order thing, but we don’t want to get a stink and desist letter from Whizzers of The Coast or whoever the hell owns D&D these days, so we’re callin’ her a Crusader ‘cuz that’s about the same thing and that’s that”.

I was wondering why you guys didn’t just read the comic again to see what they said about the characters. Byron is a Berzerker, as has been stated often, Gravedust is a Shaman, as he’s stated at least once near the beginning, BAndit is obviously a thief, the Shit Elf is a Bard, Frigg (which, by the way, is english slang for um… ‘personal-gratification’, my English teacher had told me that, back when I was in high school, can’t believe I remember that.) was either a Cleric or ‘Paladin’, since she came from a church, but I wasn’t sure what Syr’nj was. I doubt she’s a warmage, since she acts the opposite of a warmage, and I’ve yet to see any spell-casting on her part. Her inventions don’t count.

“Hey check it out, I put sulfur on a piece of wood, and when you strike it against a rough surface, it lights on fire”

Frigg is also (and this is a MUCH earlier use) the name of the Norse goddess of the home. Some folks have said she’s the equivalent of the Greek Goddess Hera; but unlike Hera, Frigg has her own warriors and is a tough cookie, and stands up to her husband when she feels the need.

Frankly that’s kind of who I thought of when I saw the name: a warrior priestess.

Not so sure about that… I get the feeling that Best is still stuck on himself as epic hero, and thus pursuing noble goals- simply not allied with Our Heroes anymore. If that’s the case, then he’ll probably go on taking the same kinds of jobs the party does, and if we see him again it’ll probably be as their competition- antagonist, sure, but not evil, because he’s trying to do what they’re doing, just without letting them take any credit.

I’m sure he sees himself as good. But then, I don’t think people who do evil things do them because they wake up one morning and think, “you know what I could really go for this morning? Some evildoing.”

Sadly, just about every FRP has a character like Best. They show up, upstage everyone, manage to outdo everyone in a number of ways, and then get miffed that people won’t fall in line behind them like brainless sheep.

The worst part is when their character really is competent. It’s the other PLAYERS, not characters, who get frustrated. The last FRP I was in had one of those characters. Unfortunately, that character was played by the GM’s wife, who couldn’t stand my wife. My only viable option was to leave the group.

Wait. People think Frigg is anything but a fighter? She’s not a magic user. She wears plate mail. Her wisdom stat’s probably through the floor. Sure, she was part of a religious order, but she was “drafted” against her will.

Its pretty obvious that Best isn’t the chosen one that the retarded village thought he was(considering his name was wrong), so honestly I don’t know if its dumb luck or just pure douchebaggery that has kept him from getting killed by kobolds so far.

Aaaaand back to disliking the bard… opinion probably swayed by Frigg’s indifference and finalised by his Cartman-style outburst.

Really… the bit where he feels he has to justify himself, THEN looks to her for backup because they had sex… THAT right there is weakness of character… and she ain’t gonna support him for it.
Still somewhat impressed that he beat Byron… but it is still possible that Byron let him win.

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